Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:33:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:33:17 -0500 Received: from cynosure.colorado-research.com ([65.171.192.72]:42115 "EHLO cynosure.colorado-research.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:33:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3E283265.4070401@cora.nwra.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:42:13 -0700 From: Orion Poplawski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "''Linux Kernel Mailing List ' '" Subject: kswapd in D uninterruptible sleep on 2.4.21-pre3-ac2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've got an SMP system running 2.4.21-pre3-ac2 with some odd behavior. It's basically completely idle, but with a load average of 1.00, which I believe is due to "kswapd" being stuck in uninterruptible sleep: 040 D 0 7 1 0 75 0 - 0 down ? 00:00:00 kswapd Can someone explain this behavior? # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2069940 300504 1769436 0 100804 48020 -/+ buffers/cache: 151680 1918260 Swap: 2096472 1204 2095268 Thank you, Orion Poplawski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/